More... 3.3 Based on the different ways in which they affect the brain, psychoactive drugs can be divided into four main groups: depressants (e.g., alcohol and sedatives), stimulants (e.g., nicotine and ecstasy), opioids (e.g., morphine and heroin), and hallucinogens (e.g., PCP and LSD).
So is there any place in the United States an 18-year-old can escape the uniform 21-year-old drinking age? For a while, Louisiana was a safe haven for thirsty teens. To comply with the letter of the national drinking age law, the state passed a law that made it illegal to buy alcohol if you were under 21.
In a recent project I had to implement whatâs commonly referred to as a Legal Drinking Age (LDA) page. Basically what needs to happen is that the user has to enter their date of birth and thus âconfirmâ that they are of a legal drinking age for their respective country.You can view an example of just such a page here.o to do this we use âcurrdate.getFullYear() â ageâ . Once we have the date of 18 years ago and the userâs birth date, both in the same format, itâs simply a matter of making sure that the required date minus the birth date isnât greater than 0.